Kaylee Wells
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Cost can be a barrier.
And the other barrier?
Only 5% of U.S.
health care spending goes toward primary care.
Health care finance professor emeritus J.B.
Silvers at Case Western Reserve University says med school pushes students toward picking specialties, rheumatology, dermatology, oncology, that kind of thing.
That's why the report says the answer is increasing spending on the primary care workforce.
More money means more primary care doctors, which means more health problems solved before they get really expensive.
I'm Kaylee Wells for Marketplace.